He Curiously Listens
...He listens for my integrity;
our highest and best destiny
As if interred in our children's
still living oral tradition
Then captured in post-millennial
historic textbooks
on cooperative eco-p...
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Categories:
laureled, caregiving, change, destiny, health,
Form: Political Verse
Beau Ideal
...Nectared graces overwhelming must
Underline your pulse-halting charms;
Utopian opal spelt by honeyed terms,
Resistless pearl cased in mortal dust.
Fair-miened nymphs kings did melt;
But such...
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Categories:
laureled, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Midway Scarlet November Corridor
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Lustrous laureled leaves in autumn silently reap,
Brown bland blisters of trampled grey soil in bay,
Glorious golden glee blankets my dreams in sleep.
Withered warm whispers in wet pasture...
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Categories:
laureled, autumn, december, november,
Form: Villanelle
New Year Sunrise
...Post-drought the winter dawning creeps
across my coarse and brindled lawn,
a molten ocean snail-like seeps
and spreads its early morning yawn.
A lambent thread it first appeared
to rise and fa...
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Categories:
laureled, imagery, sun, winter,
Form: Sonnet
A Beguiler's Last Laugh
...Well now, beneath the darkest realms
In nightmarish gists, I am the one
Who instills fear and in putrescence I dwell
In variety, isocheimal ulteriority is all I've done
Laureled with the metall...
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Categories:
laureled, angst, betrayal, corruption, dark,
Form: I do not know?
Old Claw Hammer
...Its handle, darkened with age,
had split from bottom end up.
It’s necessary to hold it together,
with a tight grip,
while striking the nail.
“I bought this in Montana,” he said,
holding up...
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Categories:
laureled, appreciation, health, love, strength,
Form: Free verse
The Myth of Laureled Paradise
...A living corpse breathes on the bed
Light and Death cool the sweat
Beading on the forehead of blank
Centuries heeding on greed and a
Invisible monster numbered in the book
Of soul...
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Categories:
laureled, spiritual, visionary, myth,
Form: Free verse
-the Welcomed Satirist-
...Most Authors and Writers of any kind
would want to avoid the sharp, biting mind
of that mordant and poignant Satirist
whose words of ridicule, and taunting interest
lampoon the very heart and soul
o...
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Categories:
laureled, on writing and words,
Form: Verse
But a Stain
...Scars eventually fade.
Dust gets swept away.
The edges of this stain are blurry.
It lies right where my edges fray.
They think it noble,
How you suffer for your craft.
It's clear to me your ...
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Categories:
laureled, angst, loss, lost love,
Form: I do not know?